The Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 2, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Baylor (49) | 19-1 | 1608 | 1 |
| 2. Gonzaga (15) | 23-1 | 1567 | 2 |
| 3. Kansas (1) | 18-3 | 1472 | 3 |
| 4. San Diego St. | 23-0 | 1447 | 4 |
| 5. Louisville | 19-3 | 1352 | 6 |
| 6. Dayton | 20-2 | 1271 | 7 |
| 7. Duke | 18-3 | 1242 | 9 |
| 8. Florida St. | 18-3 | 1188 | 5 |
| 9. Maryland | 17-4 | 999 | 15 |
| 10. Villanova | 17-4 | 959 | 8 |
| 11. Auburn | 19-2 | 926 | 17 |
| 12. Seton Hall | 16-5 | 900 | 10 |
| 13. West Virginia | 17-4 | 827 | 12 |
| 14. Oregon | 18-5 | 758 | 11 |
| 15. Kentucky | 16-5 | 660 | 13 |
| 16. Michigan St. | 16-6 | 624 | 14 |
| 17. Iowa | 16-6 | 604 | 18 |
| 18. LSU | 17-4 | 572 | 22 |
| 19. Butler | 17-5 | 437 | 16 |
| 20. Illinois | 16-6 | 373 | 19 |
| 21. Creighton | 17-5 | 372 | – |
| 22. Penn St. | 16-5 | 356 | 24 |
| 23. Arizona | 15-6 | 164 | – |
| 24. Colorado | 17-5 | 134 | 20 |
| 25. Houston | 17-5 | 85 | 21 |
Others receiving votes: Texas Tech 66, Marquette 31, Ohio St. 19, Tulsa 19, Rhode Island 18, N Iowa 17, Wichita St. 17, BYU 14, Rutgers 12, Stanford 7, Stephen F Austin 3, Yale 1, Winthrop 1, Michigan 1, Virginia 1, Bowling Green 1.
